Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-02

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"There are the Chinese field hands,"
aid Mrs Hale; you must correct your
IDEAS, and really allow them some human
lty, Kate. John SAYS they have very
good compulsory school system in their
own country, and can read and write"
That would be of little uSe to you
here alone if-.i7'-Kate hesitated.
"If WHAT" said Mrs. Hale, smiling
Are you thinking of Manucls dreadful
story of the grizzly tracks across the fields
this morning? IpromiSe you that neither
| nor mother, nor Minnie, shall stir out of
the house until your return, if you wish
it
IL wasn't thinking of that, " said Kate;
though don't believe the heating of
gong and the using OF strong language is
the best way 10 brighten grizzly from the
house. Besides, the Chinese are going
down the river to-day to funeral, or
wedding, or feast Of stolen chickens
they're all the samc-and won't be here. "
Then take Manuel, repeated Mrs.
Hale. 1--WE have the Chinese servants
and Indian Molly in the house to protect
us from Heaven knows what! ] have the
greatest confidence in Chy-Lee as warrior,
and in Chinese warfare generally. One has
only to hear him pipe IN time OF piece to
imagine what Il terror he might become III
war time. Indeed, anything more deadly
and soul Narrowing than that love song he
sang for us | cannot conceive. But really,
Kate, | am not afraid To stay alone You
know what John says: we ought to be al
ways prepared for anything that might
happen
My dear Josie" returned Kate, put
ting her arm around her sisters waist, Il
am perfectly convinced that if Three-lin
gercd Jack, or Two-tOed Bill, or even JOa-
Quin Murietta himself should step, red
handed, on that veranda you would gently
invite him TO take Il cup Of tea, inquire
about the state of the road. and refrain
delicately from any alluSiOn to the sheriff.
But shan't take Manuel from you. !
really cannot undertake to look after his
morals at the station, and keep him from
drinking augardieutc with suspicious char
acters at the bar. 1t is true he kisses my
hand in MS speech, even when It's thlckeSt,
and offers his back tome for horse block,
but think prefer the sober and honest
familiarity of even that Pike county land
lord who Is satisfied to say, jump, girl,
and I'll kctch We"
Il hope YOU didn't change your manner
to either Of thea Tor that, said Mrs Hale
with faint sigh. John wants to be
GOOD friends with them, and they are be-
having quite decently lately, considering
that they can't speak a grammatical SEN
tenCe nor know the use Of a fork.
And now the man puts on gloves and Il
tall hat to come here on Sundays and the
woman won't call until you've called
a.. 49,. So, ..r~.,...i-- 49,. ,,.rl
that improvement. The fact is. Josephine, -
continued tie young girl, folding her arms
dcmurely, eve might rs well admit it at
once-thcse people don't like us.
That's impossiblen' said Mrs. Hale,
with sublime simplicity. "Nou don like
them, you mean.
Il like them better than you do, Josie,
and that's the reason why feel it and you
don't" She checked herself, and after a
pause resumed in a lighter tone: mo; |
sha'n't 20 to the station; I'll commune
with nature to-day, and won't take any
humanity in mine, thank you, as Bill the
driver says. Adlos.
Il wish Kate would not Use that dread
full slang, even in Jest said Mrs. Scott,
in her rocking chair nj the French window,
when Josephine rc-cntcred the parlor rs
her sister walked briSkly away, Il am
afraid she is being infected by the people
ut the station. She ought to have n
change"
IL was Just thinking, said Josephene,
looking abStractcdly at her mother, that
| would try to get John to take her to san
Francisco this winter The Careys are
expected, YOU know she might visit them,
'Tm afraid if she stays here much
longer she won't care to see them AT all.
She seems to care for nothing now that she
ever liked before, returned the d'lady
Omlnou,ly.
Meantime the subject of these criticisms
was carrying away her own reflections
tightly buttOncd up in her short Jacket.
She had driven back her dog SpOt-anothef
one of her dclusions, who, giving way tn
his lower nature, had once killed n sheep
as she did not wish her JIcqucS-like
of any wounded deer to he
interrupted by fresh out
rage from her companion. The air was re-
lllv very chilly, and for the first time in
her mountain experience the direct rays of
he sun seemed TO be shorn of their power F.
This compelled her to walk more briskly |
han she was conscious OF, for in less than |.
IN hour she came suddcGlyand breathlesSly /.
IpOn the mouth of the canyon or natural |
gateway to Eagles Court.
To her always a profound spectacle OF !
mountain magnilCcnCc, itSeemed to-day al |
most terrible in its cold, strong grandeur.
'he narrowing pass was ChOkcd for mo-
ncnt between two gigantic buttrcsSes Of
,ranite approaching each other 50 closely |
t their towering SUBMITS that trees grow
~ in opposite clcitS Of the rocks inter
Mingled their branches and pointed the
caring Gothic arch OF stupendOus gate
way. She raised her eyes with quickly
eating heart She now knew that the in
trlacing trees above her were us large aS
hose she had iust quilted; she knew also
hat the point where they met was only
alf way up the clil, for she had once
azed down upon them, dwindled to shrubs
rom the airy summit; she knew that their
haken cones fell thousand feet perpen-
icularly, or bounded like shot from the
CARED walls they bombarded. She re-
rendered that one of these pines, dis
)dgcd from its high foundations, had once
ropped like porticulliS i'll the archway,
locking the pass, and WAS only carried
fterward by steel and lire. Bending her
cad mechanically, she ran swiftly through
he Shadowy passage, and halted only at
he bcginniug of the ascent on the other
de.
1t was here that the actual position of
lc plateau, 80 indefinite of approach, be-
an TO be realized. 1t now appeared an
elevation, surrounded on three
dies by gorgeS and water courses, 50 mar
wv as to be overlooked from the principal
ountain range, with which it was con-
,cted by long canyon that led to the
dye. At the outlet of this canyon-in
;gone ages a might river-it had the APP
,arance of having been slowly raised by a
Ie diluvium Of that river, and the debris
ashcd down from above--a suggestion
peated in miniature by the artificial
ateaus of eNcavated soil raised before the
outh of mining tunnels in the lower
INKS of the mountain 1t was the rcali-
tin, of a tlpt-Oftan fnrunttpn hv the